Lesson 10. So You've Seen Elvis

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You should install the tutorial examples before
continuing. Choose "Zope Tutorial" from the product
add list in the Zope management screen to install
the examples.

If you have already installed the tutorial, you can either
follow along manually, or reinstall the tutorial examples.
Note: make sure that you have cookies turned on in your browser.

What's the first thing you do when you spot Elvis? Report it at the
"Elvis Lives" web site! Let's enhance our site to allow visitors to
report their Elvis sightings.

Your mail server is typically named mail or smtp. For example,
mail.elvislives.com. If you don't know the name of your mail
server, ask your system administrator, or check the configuration of
your mail client.

Click the Save Changes button.

Now Zope can send mail. Next let's edit the mail
sending script.

Click the action.py script to edit it.

This script is called when a site visitor fills out an Elvis
sighting form. It sends you mail telling you about the
sighting. Mail is sent by calling the simple_send method of the
Mail Host object.

To get this script to work you need to change the recipient and
sender variables.

Change the recipient and sender variables to your email
address in place of user@host.

Click the Save Changes button.

Now go to the form.html page in the lesson10 folder.

Click the Test tab to view it.

Fill out the Elvis sighting form and submit it.

You should soon receive a piece of email describing the Elvis
sighting.

Congratulations, you've built a mail form. If you receive a Zope
error, there is a good chance that you haven't set the SMTP Host
setting on your mail host object correctly.

Summary

After you create a mail host, you can send mail from any
script by calling its simple_send method.